Manuel Peña Garcés | |
Cyears1: | 2013–2018 |
Cteam1: | Reading Rockets |
Cyears2: | 2016-2017, 2017-2018 |
Cteam2: | England U15 |
Cyears3: | 2018–2021 |
Cteam3: | Casademont Zaragoza (assistant) |
Cyears4: | 2021-2022 |
Cteam4: | Stadium Casablanca (technical director) |
Cyears5: | 2022–2023 |
Cteam5: | Gran Canaria (assistant) |
Cyears6: | 2023 |
Cteam6: | Shenzhen Leopards |
Cyears7: | 2024 |
Cteam7: | Satria Muda Pertamina |
Cyears8: | 2024-present |
Cteam8: | Kagoshima Rebnise |
Highlights: | As head coach:
As assistant coach: |
Birth Date: | 2 January 1983 |
Birth Place: | Castellón de la Plana, Spain |
League: | B.League |
Position: | Head coach |
Team: | Kagoshima Rebnise |
Coach Start: | 2013 |
Manuel Peña Garcés (born 2 January 1983) is a Spanish basketball coach, who is currently the head coach of Kagoshima Rebnise of the B.League. He was last coaching at Satria Muda Pertamina of the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL) and Gran Canaria at Liga Endesa and the EuroCup as assistant coach alongside head coach Jaka Lakovic, they won the EuroCup title in 2023.
During 2021–2022 he served as Sporting Technical Director at Stadium Casablanca after serving three years at Basket Zaragoza as Assistant Coach in Liga Endesa. He spent five seasons at Reading Rockets in English NBL1 where they got different achievements (1 Regular League, 1 National Cup and 1 Trophy) arriving to different finals and increasing the structure of the club; meanwhile Manuel Pena was Head Coach and Technical Director.
He alsos served as the head coach of the U15 men's English National Team[1] in the years 2016–2017 and 2017–2018.
From 2011 through to 2018, he taught at the level 3 CES course for coaches under the Spanish Basketball Federation FEB.
Additionally, he is a co-founder of SportCoach, a platform focused on development, education, and training for coaches.